First, a large fraction of Americans can't even understand the rule of 3, much less how they are being milked by their own government via (among many, many othe

First, a large fraction of Americans can't even understand the rule of 3, much less how they are being milked by their own government via (among many, many other mechanisms) inflation. Second, this is a typical "boiling the frog" type of taxation, which is slow and spread over long periods of time (typically portions of whole lifetimes) and even people with enough brains to understand the problem don't really pay attention because it's never felt as an immediate pain.